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Trojans SKouId Be Much Improved Over Last Year (Following is one of a te- ne on prospects of Pacific Conference Football learns.) By ALEX KAHN Los Angeles -(UPD-If South ern California wins two foot ball games this fall it will be a 100 per cent improve ment over last year but the Trojans expect to do better than that in Coach Don Lark's second season. Newcomers, some from the frosh squad and other trans fers, are expected to bolster the Trojans and the year of experiencein Clark's system also will be reflected in smoother performance, the coaches and the players feel. Perhaps the top addition this year is halfback Angelo Coia, a transfer from The Citadel who has all the speed of a trackman and good foot ball sense. Coia is being brought along slowly because of a slightly strained ligament but he could be Southern Cal's answer to the lack of speed demonstrated last year. Joining him in the first backfield will be sophomore Jerry Traynham at the other halfback. Clark Holden at fullback, and either Tom Mauldin or Willie Wood at quarterback. The halfback spot is given depth by the presence of Rex Johnston and Tony Ortega from last year's varsity, both limited by conference rules to five games. The line is expected to be anything but the porous sieve it was last season. Chief ad ditions are Dan Ficca at left tackle and Mike McKeever at right guard up from the frosh. with Hillard Hill re turning at left end after a year's absence because of ill ness. Ficca is being touted as the best line prospect in Troyville since John Ferraro. Mike Mc Keever is a fast interior line man, a good linebacker and an excellent blocker. His twin brother, Marlin, tentatively is listed as second string right end but probably will see plenty of first string action. Trojan fortunes dropped off sharply last season when left guard Frank Fiorentino was injured in midseason. But Fiorentino is back in shape and tearing up the prac tice field as he takes out two and three men on a play. : 'J ; WHAT IS VELD'S HIGHEST UMCUffittO MOUNTAIN PEAK? Since Everest wa caied by Hillary and Tensing, l953, the 26,8ii-fort Dhoulagiri... White Mountain..: the central Nepal Himalaya, re main today's hignest un cWrrbei mountain. In l54- an Argentine expedition climbed within 700 feet of the top TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof. Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper. Box 575. Sausalito. Calif. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. a mctwt ) ffti n n n Rental Equipment Air Compressors Water Pumps Cement Finishing Machines Electric and Gas Cement Vibrators Roller Water Wagon WITH OP ERATO R- 2 Graders Shovel 4. Cranes Back Hoe Drag Lines Tractors with Bulldozers, Ripper or Carryall 2 Turnapulls Gunnite Machine with Mobile 600 cu. ft. Compressor Delivered SP 2-5271 Other good line performers include Monte Clark at right tackle, and Don Douglas at right end. Clark's biggest problem is developing depth in. the line which drops off sharply after the first foreward wall. The schedule: Sept. 19 Oregon State at Los Angeles. Sept. 27 Michigan at Ann Arbor. Oct. 4 North Carolina at Los Angeles. Oct. 11 Oregon at Portland. Oct. 18 California at Los Angeles. Oct. 25 Washington State at Spokane. Nov. 1 Stanford at Palo Alto. Nov. 8 Washington at Los Angeles. Nov. 22 UCLA at Los An geles. Nov. 29 Notre Dame at Los Angeles. International Playoffs Set United Press International The Montreal Royals and Columbus Jets, who showed plenty of bounce during the regular season, will be the teams to watch when the In ternational league playoffs get underway on two fronts Tuesday night. The Royals, last-place fin ishers just a year ago, clinch ed their eighth pennant Fri day with a double win. The Jets, however, had to strug gle to the last day of the sea son to insure a fourth-place showing. Other clubs ready to com pete in the semi-finals of the Governor's cup classic are runnerup Toronto and third place Rochester. The two best-of-seven series will match Montreal against Columbus and Toronto against Roches ter. Columbus earned its fourth place finish by blasting Rich mond, 9-4, Sunday. The Mia mi Marlins, who had to win and hope for the Jets to lose in order to gain the playoff spot, were upset by Havana, 3-2. Women's Golf Rogue Valley Country club lady golfers play for Thurs day, Sept. 11, will be for the board of director's trophy. The annual director's lunch eon will be held immediately following at the home of Mrs. Ray Frisbie, 2447 Lyman ave. Pairings will not be made for this day but games may be arranged at the starting table. . . ; Competition for Thursday, Sept. 4 was medal. Winner in A group was Mrs. William Miller. B group was won by Mrs. Thomas Teutsch. C group victor was Mrs. W. L. Stark. D group was won by Mrs. B. D. Mitchell. Nine hole winner was Mrs. Tom Polk. In the junior girls "ringer" for August, the winners were: Julie Barclay, low gross, and Judy McFadden, low net. LONGDEN BREAKS LEG La Jolla, Calif.-IUPD-Jockey Johnny Longden, nursing the third break in his right leg in a little over a year, de clared today he planned to ride at Santa Anita in Decem ber. The world's oldest, rich est and winningest jockey, with more than 5,000 victo ries to his credit, broke his right leg above the knee Sun day when his horse fell dead at Del Mar race track during a morning workout. nn CONCRETE C? 248 E. McAndrews Rd. 49ers Win At Expense Of In ji ury By United Press International Jim Shanley of Oregon scored a touchdown on a one yard sneak and Oregon State's Joe Francis passed 20 yards to Dick Deschaine for another TD Saturday as the Green Bay Packers defeated the New York Giants 41-20 in an exhibition football game. Jack Morris of Oregon went most of the way on de fense for the Los Angeles Rams who lost 27 to 26 Sat urday to the Chicago Cardi nals. By United Press International A three-game winning streak, with the Cleveland Browns the latest victims, should have the San Francis co Forty-Niners in a happy frame of mind today but in stead two costly injuries are making them sing the blues. The Forty-Niners rallied to whip the Browns-, 21-16, at San Francisco in the only Na tional Football league exhibi tion game played Sunday. But this time they lost Charley Krueger, the All America rookie tackle from Texas A&M, with a broken right arm. Krueger was the Forty-Niners' No. 1 draft choice and was being tried at end and guard as well as at tackle. Last week's casualty was end Billy Wilson, the team's leading pass catcher for the last two seasons, who was lost for eight weeks with a shoulder separation. In Saturday exhibition games, the Chicago Cards nipped Los Angeles, 27-26, at Seattle, Wash.; Washington Redskins outscrambled Phila delphia, 35-31, at Jackson ville, Fla.; the Pittsburgh Steelers edged Baltimore, 13 10, at Buffalo, N.Y., and the Green Bay Packers drubbed the New York Giants, 41-20 at Boston. Yakima Bears Title With 4th Victory Yakima -(UPD- The Yakima Bears were champions of the Northwest league today after handing Thornton Kipper and the Lewiston Broncs a 1-0 beating in the final game of the loop play-offs Saturday night. Yakima, which won the sec ond half pennant, took the best f seven series four games to one. The Bears refused to be im pressed with the pitching of Portlanders Claim 4th Seattle- (UPD - The Portland Beaver closed out their 1958 Pacific Coast league baseball season Sunday by splitting with Seattle to wind up two games over .500 and in sole possession of fourth place. Seattle won the opener 4-3 in 11 innings but Johnny Buzhardt hurled the Beavers to an 8-1 nightcap win which gave Portland fourth place over Salt Lake City by a full game. Portland's record for the season was 78 wins and 76 losses. ' George Freese smacked his 35th home run of the season in the second game, but he lost the PCL home run title to Jim McDaniel of Salt Lake City. McDaniel hit three in the first game Sunday for a season's total of 37. Freese and Dave Melton topped Portland regulars in hitting for the season with .305. Nini Tornay who caught part of the season, wound up at an even .300. SHOWBOAT VICTOP. Rapid City, S.D.-(DPD - Ron Walp showed the way for Showboat of Beaverton, Ore., in a 4-1 win over Tacoma Sunday night to move the Oregon club into the third round play of the Northwest District American Amateur Basebal congress tournament. The rugged backstop cracked out a pair of home runs to pace an eight-hit Showboat attack. Showboat defeated Brookings, S.D., 11-10 Satur day. METER RAMS CAR Indianapolis, Ind. (UPD Wilbur Hopper, 40, of Hunt ington Woods, Mich., com plained to police a parking meter rammed his car. Skepti cal officers followed Hopper to the scene and discovered the meter had come loose from the pavement and fallen onto the car, slightly damag ing the front. NEWSPAPERMAN DIES New York - (UPD - Rudolph William Stewart, 44, former New York Times newspaper man and banking official, died Sunday in Doctors hospital. VACATION TIME President Eisenhower follows ball on his first tee-off at the Newport, Rhode Island Country Club as he started the first game of golf of his late-summer vacation. The golf course is two minutes drive from his summer White House at the Navy's Fort Adams. ACC Pre-Season Prospects Loom Bright at Clemson By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Raleigh, N.C. (UPD The Atlantic Coast Conference em barks, on an open football bowl policy this fall and per haps by .no mere coincidence prospects are for the ACC to have two or three teams of bowl caliber. Pre-sason prospects shine brightest at Clemson, and Sunny Jim Tatum's man power at the University of North Carolina is rated. just a shade below that of Clem son's Frank Howard. Clem son and North Crolina meet on the season's second Satur day, Sept. 27, in what is be ing called the "championship game." There are few quite so reckless as to overlook the rest of the season which for both Clemson and North Caro lina includes both the tradi tional "toss-'em" rivalries with South Carolina and Duke, a pair of ACC dark horse powers, and such Annex NWL Kipper, who was the league's winningest hurler during the season with 23 victories. Yak ima touched the Bronco ace for eight hits, pushing across its lone tally in the third in ning. It was the second straight win over Kipper for the new champs in the playoff series. Yakima got a beautiful pitching job from unheralded Clair Hickman, who gave up five hits and avoided serious trouble in going the route. He struck out seven and walked five. FOOTBALL INJURY FATAL Beaumont, Tex. - (UPD - Jim my Amason, 16, died here Sunday as a result of a brok en neck suffered in a high school football sor-" -night. Amason, a halfback on the Jasper, Tex., high sciiuoi team, was injured when he made a tackle during a game against Kirbyville. Nature's None better even at higher prices ! Golden grains, Kentucky's deep limestone water plus time, skill and the patience of a farming man make Old Hermitage one of the finest natural products on the market THE OLD HERMITAGE CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. DISTRIBUTED BY NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CO. 86 PROOF. powers as Georgia Tech and Notre Dame. Atlantic Coast ' teams will range from Los Angeles' Me morial Coliseum to West Point on the Hudson, and the foes to be faced this fall in clude such titans as Auburn, Texas A&M, Navy, and Illi nois. The Orange Bowl tie-up with the Big Seven has end ed, but the Orange Bowl as well as the Sugar, Gator and Cotton Bowls undoubtedly will be watching the ACC's best representatives. All ex-. cept bowl-ineligible North Carolina State. . Marse Frank Howard, boast ing the finest legions in his coaching career, apparently is in the driver's seat of the conference at Clemson this year. The biggest reason for Clemson optimism is Harvey White, 200-pound junior quar terback who set league rec ords in total offense and touchdown passing last year. Offense Best In Years White heads a rangy, fast and deep backfield. Howard has three complete backfields and an all-letterman starting squad. Team speed and of fensive flash are the best in Clemson's recent history and if there is any weakness it is in lack' of experience in line reserves. Tatum's Tar Heels have three top-notch quarterbacks, led by another 1957 sopho more whiz, Jack Cummings. There is more bench strength and a Tatum-recruited platoon stack of halfbacks. The pay off for Tatum's building pro gram at North Carolina, in dicated by last year's victories over Miami, Navy and Duke, may arrive this fall. Improvement is expected by every ACC team except pos sibly Duke and North Caro lina State. Graduation losses hit both the Blue Devils and the Wolfpack severely. Maryland, with guard Rod Breedlove, tackle Fred Cole, and Ben Scotti and guard Tom Gunderman, may field the best line in the conference. A FINE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON finest kourkon 45 Qt. f Pt. Durham IV Head Tutor In Football Cave Junction Eldon Dur ham, new Illinois Valley High school mentor, can " field a monogram-wearer at every football position this fall, but not all of these lettermen have a wealth of experience and some of them are working at new positions. Durham, a former coach at St. Mary's high of Medford, issued suits this fall to some 35 IV lettermen. About 20 is the average turnout at prac tices. A virus made inroads on the roster last week as the Cougars pointed toward their opener here Sept. 12 with the St. Mary's eleven. All but four of the letter men are seniors. Most experi enced are three two-year men, Russ Beem, right guard; Grant Dickey, fullback, and Dan Slanaker, right halfback. Slanaker was quarterback in 1957. Other senior letter-holders are Howard Olles, right end; Clark England, right tackle, and Mike Whitely, end who was moved from center, and Byron Pickle, left tackle. Jun iors are Bill Tucker, left end after playing in the backfield last season; Mike Hamby, quarterback, and Jerry Buck holtz, left half. Doys Cogburn is a sophomore left guard let terman. The Cougars will be rather light this year, according to Durham. Olles is the heaviest among the top prospects at 185 pounds. The tutor said his line will average 155 pounds and the backfield about 140. Durham served two years in the Army after leaving St. Mary's four years ago. He has taught in the grade school at Redmond for the past two years. The new IV coach will be head man also in basket ball and baseball. Durham says he's desperately in need of basketball games in Decem ber. Not a one has been sched uled so far for the Cougars for that month. In fact the only games they have lined up are the Rogue league tussles in January and February. Assisting in football this fall is Wayne Thornhill, who comes here from the Midwest. Thornhill will be head coach in wrestling. 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